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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Prologue of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt opens with a detailed description of President Roosevelt greeting guests on New Year’s Day of what year?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1892.

2. Following the death of his wife and mother, Theodore Roosevelt sold his house and his mother’s and moved his daughter and her caretaker to a smaller place located where in New York City?
(a) Park Avenue.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) 123rd Street.
(d) Madison Avenue.

3. Theodore Roosevelt, Senior received an appointment as Collector of Customs to the Port of New York by what U.S. President?
(a) William McKinley.
(b) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) James Garfield.

4. What author is mentioned in the Prologue as having remarked negatively about President Theodore Roosevelt’s methodologies and called him “insane”?
(a) Edith Wharton.
(b) Rudyard Kipling.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

5. How old was future first lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the time of Ulysses Grant’s funeral?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 10 months.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live while he studied in college?

2. Who did Theodore Roosevelt meet at a party that suggested Roosevelt accompany him to Dakota, according to the author in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?

3. What was the name of Alice Lee’s father?

4. When Theodore Roosevelt returned Albany to the Republican Convention of 1884, he led the independents for what candidate?

5. As a New York State Assemblyman, what nickname did Theodore Roosevelt gain for his habit of striking down the bills of others while drafting little legislation of his own?

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